Thursday, May 25, 2023

Unpersuasive labour



Another way of looking to get out of an art block rut. With another elaboration.

It's all merely labour. Congealed labour of focused attention. Which is aromatic.

Physical labour one isolates and does.

All of this can lead to yak shaving though, since it's a tautology, not a musing. Which are unpersuasive.

The same thing over and over again.

Hence, the isolation part, turn on a siteblocker on, phone off, then push those labour blocks through to creative shapes.

It's not glamorous or dramatic, it's not going to rise to an easy, social media algorithm. Because that's not what the algorithm is for.

Only mild blips of consternation, then the mental utterance of “good enough” with one's own specifications or others. That's it. Until better specifications are found. Best available version of oneself, then move onwards to the next one.